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BOOKIE AND ASSISTANT FINED £175 MAGISTRATE’S ASSURANCE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., Patrick Walsh was charged with conducting his premises at Hills Road as a common gaming housQ. Robert Michael Cox was charged with assisting Walsh in the conduct of a common gaming house, and Albert Khouri was charged with being on the premises. The three defendants were convicted. Walsh was fined £IOO, Cox £75 and Khouri £2, with costs in each case. “If during the next few years Walsh comes before me again, and the evidence is strong enough for a conviction, he will go to gaol,” remarked the magistrate. Th© magistrate added: “I mix with people and play bowls, and such other sports as are in keeping with magisterial dignity, and I hear people talking. “One cannot lose sight of the fact that Cox and Walsh have been carrying on the business for a great number of years. Although I have not betted with these men I know dozens of people who have.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 1
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178GAOL NEXT TIME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 1
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